Mr. W A F E Ks Description 

 Feet are long. They lodge in thg Roots 

 of Trees, making no Burrows 3 and the 

 Indians hunt them, but there is no .great 

 plenty of them. They are very good Meat, 

 and eat rather moifter than ours. 



There are great Droves of Monheys, 

 fom£ of them white, but mod of them 

 black 5 fomehave Beards, others are beard- 

 lefs. They are a of middle Size, yet ex- 

 traordinary fat at the dry Seafon, when the 

 Fruits are Ripe y and they are ver.v u good 

 Meat, for we ate of them very plentiful- 

 ly. The Indians were fhy of eating them 

 for a while • but they foon were perfuaded 

 to it, by feeing us feed 011 them fo heartily. 

 In the Rainy feafon they have Worms in 

 their Bowels. I have taken a handful of 

 them out of one Monkey we cut open 3 

 and fome of them feven or eight foot 

 long. They are a very waggifh kind of 

 Monkey, and plaid a thoufand antick 

 Tricks as we march' d at any time through 

 the Woods, skipping from Bough to Bough, 

 with the young ones hanging at the old 

 ones Back, making Faces at us, chattering, 

 and, if they had opportunity, piffing down 

 purpofely on our rfeads. To pafs from 

 top to top of high Trees, whofe Branches 

 are a little to far afunder for their Leap- 

 ing, they will fometimes hang down by 

 one anothers Tails in a Chain 5 and fwing- 

 ing in that manner, the lower moft catches 



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